The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return

Big Budha said:
Knowledge is power and you will need all the knowledge you can get to cure your daughter. I hope and pray you are successful. I lost my daughter to a drug overdose. She had ovarian cancer at the age of 18 a tumor the size of a grapefruit was removed but after healing from the surgery my daughter had significant pain caused by scar tissue on her internal organs she struggled with the pain for 15 years before accidently overdosing on Loritab and Ambien. Here's the rub I could have save her had I started my growing sooner. You have the support of a lot of good people here and I'm sure you will save your daughter. Good luck! Peace be with you.
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Big Budha..... :hugs: I know that's hard to bear. I run up against it all the time thinking of how easy it would have been to heal my husband instead of watching him die in increments over a twenty year span. Cajun reminds me frequently that I'll come up against this over and over again as we continue our work here. I'm learning to let it fuel my passion to get as much information out there that this doesn't have to be the way it goes for anyone else.

The pain never really goes away. I'm hoping it at least dulls in time. Typing through a veil of tears is extremely challenging.

I hope you find a peace that carries you forward. I keep reminding myself that this passion I developed for the healing properties of cannabis is just what my husband would have wanted me to do. Part of my drive with our daughter is the reality that the anxiety is intense enough that she's already attempted suicide twice in her brief adult life. I'm hoping to spare her any more moments that're that desperate for the rest of her life.

The unexpected challenges of parenthood, eh? I need to leave you with another, love-infused hug. :hugs: :Love:
 
UncleCannabis said:
OMG!! 23 pages already..??? LMAO!!!

Looks like I have a world of catching up to do.
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There you are. :Love::kisstwo: It's a run-away journal for sure Uncle Cannabis. :laughtwo: I haven't even begun growing yet, but damn, we're covering so much important ground. It turns out the title was divinely inspired. Honestly, it caught me a bit by surprise too. Who knew unbridled joy and unconditional loving could draw such a crowd? :circle-of-love:

supergroomer said:
Tell me about it. I step away for an hour or s and I have 2 pages to catch up on!!!! Hopefully I haven't missed any likes!!:circle-of-love::peace:
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I miss people all the time supergroomer. I missed Uncle Cannabis until I saw Jim's pickup of the quote and thought "Uncle Cannabis is here?" It's so funny, but in my mind I stopped in the middle of this room full of happy souls and looked around until I found him. :laughtwo:

Thanks MagicJim. :hugs: That's twice already today that you've had my back. :kisstwo:
 
ShiggityFlip said:
Yes Bar (can I call you Reg?) this mix can be used in a refillable e-cig. If it is one of the store bought coil mini tanks I would probably use it once and toss it. The shatter will gum it up fast. I also think with a tank you end up making the last bit of juice not taste as good as the first due to the buildup. That's why I use a dripper build. I keep my mix in a blunt syringe and just lay it on the wick like ketchup on a French fry. I am due to make some shatter. I will post a whole tutorial on what I do and place it in my sig. I will also pm you to let you know.

Another way I enjoy the mix is to lay some on a dried bud in my firefly vape. Wow that is super flavorful and fun also.
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I look forward to this. I have a 6-60W mod with 0.5 sub-ohm tank and replaceable dual organic cotton wicks.
My attempt at using heat and time to infuse 100ml vegetable glycerin(VG) with 1 oz cannabis bud failed, resulted in an infusion of less than 5% of the available cannabis oil. I get some terpene flavors but the infused vg clogs my wicks and it take about 5ml for a small buzz. I literally can't vape fast enough to stay buzzed. . I ended up squirting the VG on my tongue for a low-euphoria body buzz.

Vaping the oil instead of the herb would be nice, but except for Tead's testimonial here of a mystery e-cig, I don't know that it is possible for a e-cig wick to process cannabis.
 
LegalizeNY said:
Hi Sweetsue! I've been reading some of your journals in the background for a while now. Finally got the courage to start posting! Can't wait to see what the future holds for you.
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Well hello LegalizeNY. :battingeyelashes: I'm sure glad you gathered that courage. It's always a pleasure to meet someone new. Welcome to my journal and the wider :420: community. I hope you're finding everything to your liking. I see you have a journal up and running. I'll have to take a swing through and see what's up. I have some free time right now, as a matter of fact. I just finished packing my suitcase for Vegas and don't have anything pressing to do for a bit, so I'll be right over.
 
Radogast said:
I look forward to this. I have a 6-60W mod with 0.5 sub-ohm tank and replaceable dual organic cotton wicks.
My attempt at using heat and time to infuse 100ml vegetable glycerin(VG) with 1 oz cannabis bud failed, resulted in an infusion of less than 5% of the available cannabis oil. I get some terpene flavors but the infused vg clogs my wicks and it take about 5ml for a small buzz. I literally can't vape fast enough to stay buzzed. . I ended up squirting the VG on my tongue for a low-euphoria body buzz.

Vaping the oil instead of the herb would be nice, but except for Tead's testimonial here of a mystery e-cig, I don't know that it is possible for a e-cig wick to process cannabis.
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Funny enough i been trying to research cannabis infused e-juice and from what I have it seems PG is better at absorbing the thc. I don't know how accurate that is as i haven't yet tried it and that os due to the fact i haven't found a substitute for everclear yet. Apparently where i libe everclear is banned and I didn't know that til recently lol (shows how much i drink lol) but anyways the recipe i found claims that if you start with a concentrate it turns out better, the recipe also say to decarboxylate the cannabis first then do a extract with the everclear then take the resulting extract and warm it into the PG (the suggest something called ejmix to be exact) then wala you have cannabis e-juice. Im a skeptic so I am not sure how well this recipe works. I would like to hear from anyone who has experience making this stuff lol.
 
Radogast said:
Vaping the oil instead of the herb would be nice, but except for Tead's testimonial here of a mystery e-cig, I don't know that it is possible for a e-cig wick to process cannabis.
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Really? I didn't get the idea that this was some mystery. Sometimes you gotta smack me over the head a bit. Sorry all.
So, I just assumed that folks in legalized regions were familiar with these. It appeared to be a disposable non-refillable/non-rechargeable thin pen like device. About the length of a pen. Thinner than your standard BIC pen. Metal outside. Activated the device by dragging on it. Worked like a charm. The gent had 3 or 4 of them in his breast pocket... just like a few pens. It was good for about 10 good hits. Petered out pretty quickly. Hit like a standard vaporizer... much like my vapour bros. whip vaporizer.
It was very nice. The taste was wonderful. Good herb too.
 
Okay so after I make some shatter I will definitely post a thread tutorial on cannabis ejuice. PG (propylene glycol) and VG (vegetable glycerine), are normal components of ecig juice and are usually vaped in ratios depending on the type of vape you want. PG is thin and provides throat hit, that feeling on the back of your throat. It is hygroscopic and that is what gives the throat hit(dries back of your throat). It also provides the best flavor carrier as well. Some small amount of people have allergies to PG. it is what is used in fog machines at rock concerts.
VG is thicker and sweeter and less of a flavor carrier. It does produce more visible vape. It is naturally sweeter than PG. when making ecig juices you can do all VG but it will taste less than the PG version.
When making ecig juice I like to use a 80VG/20PG ratio. This carries flavor and makes good vape.

Now with cannabis you can not just use PG and VG. The concentrate separates leaving a layer of cannabis extract on top and the PG/VG on bottom. So we look for something to keep the canna extract emulsified. That substance is PEG polyethylene glycol. So for cannabis extract I use a premade mix called EJMIX. It is readily available and easy to use. I dissolve the shatter into the Ejmix and the suck it up into a blunt needle syringe. This makes it very easy to use. I do not decarboxylate the extract. The vaping temperature is plenty high enough to do that. If you decarboxylate the Ejmix/shatter you will lose all volatile terpenes and end up with a less tasty product for no reason.

The Ejmix can be used in disposable tanks or regular tanks in vape pens. I do not recommend this. It is convenient to do so and I have done it in the past but my shatter is precious. My golden Ejmix is too precious for tanks and this is why:

In a tank the fluid in the tank becomes heated and the terpenes evaporate. The quality of the vape also degrades. What you get in the beginning is much better than the cooked extract that develops during tank use. This is why I use a dripping atomizer with a silica wick and nichrome 80 coil. Nichrome 80 is 80%nickel 20% chromium and has no iron in it like nichrome 60 or kanthal which are two metals used for vape coils. I get a metal taste from anything with iron. The nichrome 80 has a side benefit of turning cherry at a lower temperature than the other two metals. So we get a cooler vape which is a real plus for me.

So like I said before I drop the extract onto the silica wick with the syringe. Then vape all the concentrate. Before I add new concentrate I vape what is there then give a good pulse of dry wick in order to get rid of any residue. Then I add more to the wick and vape again. With a tank you can't clean the wick while the tank is full. So it gets cruddier and cruddier until it is empty. Trust me there is no way to avoid that or make it not happen. People will say it works and it does. I have done it that way for sure. But I got sad seeing the end of the tank degrade in quality.

My shatter is more valuable than that. Using a drip atomizer is not even tedious. It is very easy and will give 3-4 monster hits. If I wanted to go somewhere and vape extract I would just preload my RDA with a good amount of extract. A quick pulse will get the extract to suck into the wick and it will stay there until needed. A small needle tipped 10ml bottle can be carried with ease and it takes all of 10 seconds to reload the vape. If I am by myself one wick full is more than more than enough to get me obliterated lol. Expect a thread with pictorial and FAQ to come very soon and I will make a post and link it here.
 
It is my pleasure to do so. I got really into ecigs for a bit and have tried it all. I want to spread that knowledge and experimentation with all my loved ones on this forum.
 
ShiggityFlip said:
It is my pleasure to do so. I got really into ecigs for a bit and have tried it all. I want to spread that knowledge and experimentation with all my loved ones on this forum.
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Just out of curiosity does your method require alot of concentrate?
 
lexort420 said:
Just out of curiosity does your method require alot of concentrate?
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There is no loss of concentrate so you just tailor your Ejmix amounts to the concentrate. Less concentrate uses a corresponding lesser amount of Ejmix. One can also dilute the strength of the concentrate by adding more of the mix. It's totally user adjustable. Well there is a little loss and that would be whatever sticks to the side of the shot glass or inside of the syringe. These losses can be mitigated though, the syringe loss is recouped each time you fill the syringe. The shot glass loss can be recovered by taking buds and using them as sponges to wipe out the shot glass.
 
Mr Am4zin said:
Morning SweetSue :hugs::Love::hugs:
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Morning Love. :hugs::Love::hugs:

I'm headed out to Vegas this morning. :slide: Feeling supercharged and excited. This may be my only opportunity to visit the city, and I'm going to do my best to enjoy every moment of the trip. My heart is filled with hope that those on the East Coast are holding their own against the onslaught of this blizzard. Be safe and warm my friends.

I'll be in and out all day as we travel the five hours or more to our destination. We're stopping in Kingman to drop off a couple monster cakes my friend baked for a homeless shelter there and to grab a quick lunch and then off to the Strip. I'll be watching a streaming conference on cannabis and health that begins today. Technology rocks! Thank you Apple for the personal hot spot. :cheesygrinsmiley:

Before I get to the cannabis summit let me take a moment to encourage you to get out there today and spread that joy far and wide. It makes more of a difference than you'd think, even if all you can do is send loving thoughts out into the universe.

It's so wonderful to have each and every one of you in my life. Thank you for stopping by. I'm loving the conversations that spring up, and this latest one intrigues me. Question though - I know that VG is vegetable glycerin. What on earth is PG? Never mind. I actually read Shiggity's post and there it was in the opening statements. :laughtwo:
 
My friend just informed me that we're going to lose internet access out there on the open spaces. :straightface: I always feel lost when I know I can't have instant access to my virtual neighborhood. What a crazy world we've created eh? I suppose during those times I'll just spend my time reading the Kindle about the Endocannabinoid System and writing.
 
Radogast said:
I look forward to this. I have a 6-60W mod with 0.5 sub-ohm tank and replaceable dual organic cotton wicks.
My attempt at using heat and time to infuse 100ml vegetable glycerin(VG) with 1 oz cannabis bud failed
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lexort420 said:
Funny enough i been trying to research cannabis infused e-juice and from what I have it seems PG is better at absorbing the thc. I don't know how accurate that is as i haven't yet tried it and that os due to the fact i haven't found a substitute for everclear yet.
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For anyone that's interested in making canna-juice for e-cigs Mr. Amazing has found a step by step guide for me. It's similar to tincture but made specifically for e-cigs (meaning it won't clog your cartridges).
Just hit me up and I'll PM you a link.
 
Canyon said:
Sue,
Would you post one or two of the better endocannabinoid system links. I did some reading about a year ago. More like skimming.

I never got back to it. The reading is slow for me because everything is unfamiliar. It is interesting though. Maybe more will stick with round two.

TIA
I never know
canyon
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Canyon, this is a link to my basic write-up on the system, posted on my blog.

The Endocannabinoid System: a basic overview

Cannafan maintains a blog with a wellness segment, and she's been posting fast and furious lately. This is a serious resource on our site. I highly recommend a stop to see what she has to offer. Here's a link to her post of an article on the Endocannabinoid System, but look around while you're there.

The Endocannabinoid System
 
We're in Nevada! :woohoo:
 
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